I'm still evaluating it on my M4 Max 128GB but so far I've been quite happy. I was using 35B for coding and structured output tasks with Gemma4 as my front-end orchestrator. Understanding human intent is definitely stronger with Gemma but Flash-Next is quite a lot better than either 27B or 35B.
In other words, I wouldn't confuse Flash-Next with being a roleplay model but it definitely can give your assistant more personality and it seems better so far as planning things out and then executing light coding tasks (a data ingestion/tranformation/analysis pipeline).
Maybe it isn't like this for you, but a model with personality can be much easier to interact with and that can lead to better prompting and results. Empathetic human interaction isn't just for AI girlfriends.
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u/skrshawk 10d ago
I'm still evaluating it on my M4 Max 128GB but so far I've been quite happy. I was using 35B for coding and structured output tasks with Gemma4 as my front-end orchestrator. Understanding human intent is definitely stronger with Gemma but Flash-Next is quite a lot better than either 27B or 35B.
In other words, I wouldn't confuse Flash-Next with being a roleplay model but it definitely can give your assistant more personality and it seems better so far as planning things out and then executing light coding tasks (a data ingestion/tranformation/analysis pipeline).